PEP 1 currently says that if a PEP is authored by a non-core developer, the
author must find a core developer to sponsor their PEP. At today’s Steering
Council meeting, we proposed to relax this requirement to allow non-core
developers to sponsor a PEP with the approval of the Council. There i
2019-09-17 Update: as of the scheduled cutoff time earlier today, we had two
recently identified release blocker issues open. Thanks to Andrew and Yury,
one of them is now resolved with code (bpo-38013). The other (bpo-30458 and
bpo-36274) remains unresolved at this point. Because the issue(s
